Development Tester [Anno] in Mainz bei Ubisoft

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft’s 21,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

About Ubisoft Mainz

The teams at Ubisoft Mainz are engineering some of Ubisoft’s biggest blockbusters. Operating from a historic city in the heart of Germany, the studio develops games pushing the limits of the genre like the acclaimed Anno 1800 and lends decades of expertise to AAA co-development projects like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and the upcoming Beyond Good And Evil 2. More information at mainz.ubisoft.com.

Anno is a critically acclaimed and award-winning franchise, offering a rich city-building experience and providing players ample opportunity to create huge metropolises, plan efficient logistics networks, explore and settle new lands and dominate their opponents by diplomacy, trade or warfare.

As a Development Tester on our team, you are essential to ensuring the quality and stability of our game’s features and content.

You believe in working efficiently and testing thoroughly to achieve the best of quality. In close cooperation with your colleagues in programming, art, and design you make sure that software errors or game design problems can be corrected now, prevented later, and never reach our players-

What you will do:

• Perform daily tests, report and monitor software errors (bugs) and game design problems in a bug database
• Be responsible for quality and stability of new game content, new features and upcoming releases
• Work alongside developers, artists and designers to perform according tests
• Verify fixes applied by developers (bug regression)
• Validate high risk changes before they are integrated into the main version in order to ensure stability and basic functionality
• Deliver feedback and reports to the development team, on a regular basis as well as on-demand

What you bring:

• Experience on a similar position for at least 2 years
• Good communication skills and interpersonal skills, with a proactive and independent work style
• A strong understanding of development processes and the needs of different departments throughout a development cycle
• Adapt easily to platform and workload variations
• High expertise in writing test-cases and setting up test procedures
• Knowledge of gaming platforms (PC, Consoles, etc)
• Experience with MS Office, Confluence, Sharepoint
• Experience with defect & test case management tools (e.g. JIRA, XRay)
• Excellent knowledge of English both spoken and written
  
  Nice to have:
  
  • Any coding knowledge
  • Experience with automation test methods
  • ISTQB-Certification
  • Experience working in global teams
  • Familiarity with Ubisoft's line of products and services

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience, and skills
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us

What we offer:

• Relocation support: We offer financial support in form of a cash allowance and assistance with accommodation search and settle-in support via our relocation partner, for international candidates we offer visa assistance
• Ubisoft Blue Byte Academy: We offer multiple opportunities for you to discover your full potential and develop yourself in various areas. Guest speakers from the industry, workshops, and access to our training and development platform as well as to our in-house library
• Discounted and free games: Discount on employee game orders & free Ubisoft games on Ubisoft Connect
• Hybrid work model: Provides the flexibility to combine working from the studio and your home within Germany
• Monthly Mobility Budget: 80€ per month that can be used on bicycle lease, parking spot rental or public transportation ticket
• Up to 350€ childcare support per child per month